History is made at night

From 'The People' July 24 1960 a report on Beatniks in Liverpool, London and elsewhere, with some choice quotes and turns of phrase:...

Continuing the series on the radical history of Luton, here's a bit about a 1970s radical bookshop, Partisan Books which was based at 34...

Not sure how many folk music revivals we have had now, of course it's never really gone away but I am enjoying the latest queer friendly...

Dave Lawson (1972-2021) was a  London and North Wales based artist whose Indieprints series features numerous music themed designs, often in...

A couple of free festivals I went to in north London's Finsbury Park back in 1996. Not sure of the date of the first one - 'Festival...

A fascinating Derek Jarman talk and film at London's Farsight Gallery last month, featuring a 1984 LWT (London Weekend TV) documentary f...

Dan Hancox has written a great piece on ' Debunking the weird myths about London's 24-hour party people' in which he rightly tak...

Last week I stumbled across an exhibition of photos of Jeff Buckley by Merri Cyr, including the shots she took for the cover of Grace, his o...

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery is a retrospective of 50 years of radical image making.  'attempt to expres...

Charity fundraising t-shirt from Jeremy Deller, featuring Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, of Greek Cypriot descent and Andrew Ridgeley,  son o...

posters in Shoreditch, 2024 When I saw the great folk singer/guitarist Martin Simpson playing earlier in the summer (at the Goose is Out fol...

Spotted  by Dollis Brook while walking part of the Capital Ring this weekend  

 Judy Chicago 'Revelations' is a retrospective of the artist's work at London's Serpentine gallery. Her feminist imagery is ...

'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003' is a free exhibition at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive...

In 1993 the far right British National Party achieved a breakthrough in the East End of London when one of its members was elected as a coun...